Archive for June 2024

The National Human Trafficking Hotline’s statistics for 2021, the most recent available, reported 59 human trafficking cases in New Mexico involving 267 victims. Of the cases, 41 were sex trafficking, seven were sex and labor trafficking, and six were labor trafficking. The victims included 43 adults and nine children, 44 of whom were females, eight were males, and three were gender minorities. Seven victims were foreign nationals. Since the organization began collecting statistics in 2007, numbers of trafficking cases in New Mexico have increased each year.

Yaqoub Saadeh graduated this month from Indiana University Indianapolis with a degree in psychology and a certificate in social work. But instead of celebrating the accomplishment with family and friends, he spent the last weeks of his undergrad in an encampment setup on a concrete corner of the campus.

Britain’s Labour Party, the likely winner in the nation’s next parliamentary elections, is showing no interest whatsoever in subjecting the UK’s richest to any significant tax hike. “We have no plans for a wealth tax,” Rachel Reeves, the Labour Party’s likely choice for finance minister, announced last summer — and no plans either to put in place a mansion tax or a higher levy on either capital gains or top tax-bracket income.

“I don’t see the way to prosperity as being through taxation,” Reeves went on. “I want to grow the economy.”

About 60 people delivered a petition – signed by more than 16,000 – to Labour MP Jan Tinetti on Tuesday. The petition calls for students to receive a fortnightly stipend to help cover costs.

Labour Party shadow chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves (right) and opposition leader Keir Starmer (left) visit Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Stevenage, UK, May 28.